2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the past 12 months, have you received food stamps, also called SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on an EBT card?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,220 393 11.4 9.9-13.1 2,827 88.6 86.9-90.1
Region 8 583 94 11.9 8.2-17.0 489 88.1 83.0-91.8
GENDER
Male 228 19 6.9 3.5-13.3 209 93.1 86.7-96.5
Female 355 75 16.2 10.5-24.0 280 83.8 76.0-89.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 222 19 8.4 4.4-15.6 203 91.6 84.4-95.6
Non-Hispanic Black 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 278 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 156 34 12.2 7.4-19.5 122 87.8 80.5-92.6
45-64 226 25 12.0 5.2-25.1 201 88.0 74.9-94.8
65+ 195 35 12.0 6.5-21.4 160 88.0 78.6-93.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 202 53 23.0 14.6-34.3 149 77.0 65.7-85.4
Some Post-H.S. 188 27 4.3 1.9- 9.5 161 95.7 90.5-98.1
College Graduate 191 14 6.0 2.4-14.1 177 94.0 85.9-97.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 227 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 224 *** *** *** 215 97.8 93.6-99.3
Don't know/Not Sure 132 25 13.2 7.2-23.0 107 86.8 77.0-92.8

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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